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  1. May 29, 2024 · How much did Margaret Dumont understand the jokes leveled at her by Groucho Marx? In seven movies as Groucho’s straight woman, the well-upholstered Dumont would stand at attention and have various reactions to Groucho’s fusillade of insults.

  2. Oct 19, 2023 · Here are 10 things you should know about Margaret Dumont, born 141 years ago today. She’s best remembered as a straight woman nonpareil for the Marx Brothers...

  3. Jan 3, 2024 · Margaret Dumont was a renowned American actress best known for her remarkable performances in the Marx Brothers' films. Born on October 20, 1882, in Brooklyn, New York, Dumont began her acting career in the theater and later went on to become a prominent figure in the film industry.

  4. Oct 20, 2023 · Here are 10 things you should know about Margaret Dumont. born 141 years ago today. She’s best remembered as a straight woman nonpareil for the Marx Brothers, but that doesn’t begin to tell her story.

  5. Jun 19, 2024 · In 2023, her remains were removed from non-public vaultage in the basement to a publicly accessible niche in the chapel columbarium. Margaret Dumont was the butt of many of Groucho Marx's jokes, but she definitely was quite a character!

  6. Sep 30, 2023 · Starring: Margaret Dumont (the first of seven films with the Marxes), Mary Eaton, Oscar Shaw. The first full-length Marx Brothers feature, an early sound film based on one of their Broadway ...

  7. Oct 19, 2023 · Here are 10 things you should know about Margaret Dumont, born 141 years ago today. She’s best remembered as a straight woman nonpareil for the Marx Brothers, but that doesn’t begin to tell her story.

  8. Mar 10, 2024 · We’re not the Margaret Dumontsand we’re turning into the Margaret Dumonts on a lot of levels. That lets the misogynists and homophobes and racists seem like the rebels: “Well, we’re saying what people can’t say anymore.”

  9. Oct 18, 2023 · Having grown up watching Marx Brothers comedies since toddlerhood, it took me a long time to recognize that Dumont was acting. I had just always believed that she was this really prudish, dignified woman who didn't understand what Groucho was up to.

  10. Oct 20, 2023 · Watch Margaret Dumont, best remembered as the comic foil to the Marx Brothers, as she appears on The Donna Reed Show (S 1, E 34).